Golden Meadow News

Bad weather forced the ribbon cutting ceremony under a tent for the new Louisiana Highway 1 bridge in Leeville.

The new La. 1 Leeville Toll Bridge will open to traffic Wednesday. The bridge serves as the only land link to Grande Isle or Port Fourchon and replaces the old Leeville drawbridge that was more than 50 years old.

A sign on the entrance to the Louisiana Highway 1 alerts drivers about delinquent tolls on the new Leeville Bridge which opens Tuesday, July7, 2009.

The new two-mile Louisiana Highway 1 toll bridge over Bayou Lafourche in Leeville opens at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, the first phase of a $1.4 billion project to build a 19-mile bridge from Golden Meadow to the Gulf of Mexico, replacing the existing, deteriorating road that floods even in low-level storms.

Lafourche officials had considered a ban on private fireworks displays this year because of dry conditions that prompted a statewide prohibition on outdoor fires.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development will host an open house tonight to give Lafayette residents an opportunity to learn about the new La.

Workers are nearing completion of the new Louisiana Highway 1 toll bridge, featuring a no-stop tolling system, over Bayou Lafourche near Port Fourchon and Grand Isle.

The state highway department will have a series of public meetings to explain the new Louisiana 1 Highway toll bridge over Bayou Lafourche near Port Fourchon and Grand Isle.

Drivers headed south from the New Orleans area for a trip to Grand Isle will soon have to pay a toll to get there, with the $160 million replacement of the Leeville Bridge slated to open for business some time this summer.

Her grandfather, sea explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau, gave the world an unprecedented look at the wonders of the oceans.

Leeville- A 27 year old Galliano man died after colliding his pickup truck head-on with an 18-wheeler on LA 1 south of Golden Meadow near Leeville.

Alexandra Cousteau and Windell Curole discuss the levees in Golden Meadow, Louisianna.

A Galliano shipyard employee whose marriage to a Filipino man turned out to be a sham said he had assured her he had no other wives prior to their marriage in August 2007.

A Filipino man has been booked for bigamy after he allegedly married a Louisiana woman to gain U.S. citizenship, even though he had two wives in his native Philippines.

A Filipino man living in Golden Meadow faces possible jail time and deportation after a lengthy police investigation performed by federal and state agencies allegedly revealed he had three wives at the same time.

Chef Dean's delectable sauces start with this 'mother' sauce MARCELLE BIENVENU My office mate at the John Folse Culinary Institute is Chef Dean Terrebonne, a delightful gentleman from Golden Meadow -- "down the bayou," as they say in this part of southeastern Louisiana.

Bids on the first two federal stimulus-funded transportation projects came in below the estimated cost, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary William Ankner said.

If you were in the sixth grade in Judice between 1942 and 1947 or if you attended Central Elementary in Lafayette between 1948 to 1951, your teacher may have been Miss Comeaux.

Workshops to focus on hazard mitigation The LSU Sea Grant College Program and the state Department of Natural Resources Coastal Management Division will hold three workshops in March on hazard mitigation based ...

Golden Meadow- About twenty-four hours after a five year old child from Mississippi was killed, a Golden Meadow man was struck and killed by a pickup truck as he crossed the roadway in southern Lafourche ...